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The Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences’ research mission is to build the evidence for best practices to maintain and improve the health and wellbeing of the local, national, and global community members.

Hayward LM, Li L. Sustaining and improving an international service-learning Partnership: An Evidenced-based Service Delivery Framework that Include the Voice of the Global Partner. Physiotherapy Research International. 2017; 33(6):475-489.

Two Tier 1 Seed Grants Awarded to PTMRS Faculty for FY2017Dr. Sheng-Che Yen in collaboration with Dr. Deniz Erdogmus from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of engineering, received an Interdisciplinary Tier 1 Seed Grant to fund their project titled “EEG-guided Robotic Mirror Therapy for Neurorehabilitation.” The goal of this project is to develop and test an innovative brain-interface controlled robotic system that synchronizes central and peripheral feedbacks. The long term objective of this proposed project is to improve lower extremity functions and walking in patients post stroke through integration of central neural feedback and peripheral sensory feedback.

Dr. Dennerlein in collaboration with Drs. Alisa Lincoln and Steven Vallas from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities received an Interdisciplinary Tier 1 Seed Grant to fund their project titled “Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing in Construction Workers: Understanding the role of work and the conditions of work.” The project’s long term goal is to develop and test work-site and employer based programs to improve the mental health and wellbeing in construction workers within the Total Worker Health® framework. For this Tier 1 project, the objective is to obtain data necessary to develop and implement potential intervention programs that target work-related factors to improve worker mental health and wellbeing.